Friday, January 9

After a restful night's sleep, I headed for the treadmill before breakfast this morning. Mother came over as I was getting ready for the day and made rice pudding from leftover rice. Then we all got busy sprucing the house for a visit from family tomorrow.





After lunch, Hubbie and I went to a local bank to attend an organizational meeting sponsored by a home health business that is looking for volunteers for its hospice services. Some activities that volunteers could become involved in are photography, crafts, scrapbooking, cooking, yard work, visiting, etc. The volunteers could work in groups or singly.





If I became involved, I'd be asked to do photography, which would mean going into homes to do snapshots of patients and family. I'm not sure how I feel about doing this, since it seems intrusive. I'd feel more comfortable helping with greeting cards and scrapbooking. Hubbie hopes to involve the Master Gardeners in helping with yard work.





Back home, we continued with household chores until supper time, At one point, Hubbie went into the laundry room to search for something. In a minute or two, we heard a loud clatter of tin against the concrete floor.





"I've been wondering where this was!" Hubbie announced triumphantly, as he emerged from the room waving a feather duster.





"That caused all the noise?" I laughed.





"No-o-o," Hubbie said, "I kicked an empty popcorn can while I was in there, and found the duster behind it."





Later, I made a batch of bran muffins to go with leftover potato soup for supper. Dessert, of course, was the yummy rice pudding.





This evening, we went downtown for Second Friday events. First we stopped by the art gallery to attend a reception for a fiber artist from another state who is exhibiting her work at the gallery. This lady does hanging quilted art pieces. We arrived at the reception during the last half hour of the event, and the artist had already left, but we hung around for a few minutes talking to other art gallery committee members.





Then we went to a local coffee house to see the film, "The Jesus Guy." This documentary, that has gotten quite a bit of media attention, is about a barefoot evangelist that has visited 47 states and 13 countries in his 16-year mission. The man has long, flowing hair, and dresses in a Biblical white robe, but he lays no claim to being Jesus. He just says he has been called to put aside worldly things, and not to seek things like money, food, or water, but to just walk barefoot and talk to any who approach him.



The film, made over a three-year period, shows him getting various reactions from acceptance to skepticism. At one point, a group of prep school boys attempted to engage him in a combative verbal challenge, but he just walked away, because part of his mission is to bring peace rather than discord. Some folks saw him as a kook, while others claimed their lives have been changed from coming in contact with him.